Appx costs of moving 26Ft bilge keel yacht by road please?

[vyv_cox]

A HIAB driver here told me it will lift my Moody 30 but sadly it will only do up to 12ft 2" Also I was told the Marina where my boat is only allow themselves to lift it.

If this is the man you mean http://www.hiabcranehirewales.co.uk I watched him load a fin keeled Moody 33 at Milford Haven to take it to Poole (I think). The 12' 2" is the maximum height allowed. I was most impressed by his abilities and care taken.

 

[mickywillis]

Have received the first quote for transportation by road.
Transport costs = £560
Mast down at one end, up at other = £200
Self load/unload at each end = £200

Total is £960 no VAT

Is this reasonable for appx 160 mile journey?

 

[Scillypete]

Have received the first quote for transportation by road.
Transport costs = £560
Mast down at one end, up at other = £200
Self load/unload at each end = £200

Total is £960 no VAT

Is this reasonable for appx 160 mile journey?

You can have a lot of harbour/marina nights and visits to the pub or restaurant for £960 sail it round and enjoy the savings

 

[mtb]

You can have a lot of harbour/marina nights and visits to the pub or restaurant for £960 sail it round and enjoy the savings

+1

get on with it I thought the idea of owning a boat was to use it not get it transported !

 

[lpdsn]

Have received the first quote for transportation by road.
Transport costs = £560
Mast down at one end, up at other = £200
Self load/unload at each end = £200

Total is £960 no VAT

Is this reasonable for appx 160 mile journey?

I'd vote for sailing too, if it were me. You can spend time sailing locally to get used to the boat and find and fix the faults, which takes the main risk out of sailing a newly purchased boat home, then day sail around the coast.

 

[planteater]

For a 23 footer I paid £2 per mile + £70 each end for craneage. Total of £300 + £140 = £440 from the Broads to Faversham. Sailing would have been more of an adventure but I didn't have to take any time off work or recruit/bribe any crew.

Your quote sounds a little steep to me.

 

[Tryweryn]

Is that really £14,500? Have you chartered a Hercules Aircraft for the trip.

ooops to many zeros lol sorry

 

[Tryweryn]

Cheapest for me so far is a guy called p j down or something (im sure ill be corrected). He is Ipswich way and very cheap but has the gear and know how.

 

[ripvan1]

I used this chap http://www.tonytugboats.com/ for a 22ft from Bristol to Langstone marina and his website says he can haul 3 ton on a trailer and up to 32ft. He was reasonably priced.

If needs must that you transport it then haul it down to Langstone and use one of the slipways to launch then motor around to marina and get them to put mast up. Price for that will be on their website.

As others have suggested I'd personally sail it around.

 

[lpdsn]

ooops to many zeros lol sorry

Shame, I was looking forward to the YouTube video of a Moody 30 being air dropped into the Menai Straits. That would've put Dehler and their crash test in their place.

 

[mickywillis]

For a 23 footer I paid £2 per mile + £70 each end for craneage. Total of £300 + £140 = £440 from the Broads to Faversham. Sailing would have been more of an adventure but I didn't have to take any time off work or recruit/bribe any crew.

Your quote sounds a little steep to me.

Possibly, hence asking on here!
Who did you use and how long ago? If you don't want to post on here publicly, PM me.
Thanks

 

[mickywillis]

Cheapest for me so far is a guy called p j down or something (im sure ill be corrected). He is Ipswich way and very cheap but has the gear and know how.

Any website/email/telephone contact details?

 

[AudreyGreenwood]

There are really some great ideas there. It's amazing that someone hasn't come up with some amazing tranportation idea like boat moving boxes and the like since there are obviously qiute a number of people in Australia who love boating.

 

[Mattjazzwood]

If the boat is fit for it I would say go by sea it is not that far and can be done in just a few daysailing hops. Which is ok if you can spare the time and can await reasonable weather. Keep the passages as simple as possible and you will feel your confidence rising, maybe take someone experienced along as crew if you're that worried. I brought a Halcyon 27 from the Deben to Scilly several years ago now but in early March it took us a week with stops in Dover and Dartmouth, your trip is half that distance.

Boat transport is not cheap but a 26 footer will fit on a flatbed lorry and if that lorry is fitted with a HIAB crane of sufficient lifting power then even better. If you have any mates that hold a LGV license it may even be possible to hire one and do the job yourselves.

This is our previous boat a Hunter horizon 273 being loaded for launching

Hi, I'm thinking of doing this, I'm hoping to buy a 25ft sail boat with a bilge keel and a weight of 2300kg but will need to transport it to North Yorkshire, As far as I can see this is doable on a 7.5 ton flatbed which I could drive myself but I'm sure I've missing something so will end up being illegal. can you offer and reasurances ?
Cheers Matt

 

[CPD]

Sail it, no question. Easy day hops and you will learn a ton, about the boat and maybe yourself. Ask on here for volunteers if your friend can’t make it. Good luck !

 

[Hallberg-Rassy]

From where? Anything that comes in around the £1,000 mark, that puts you in the "buy a second hand trailer" zone.

For cheap quotes, try uShip.

A number of the advertising boat transporters are total pisstakers, unwilling to arrange logistics as normal transporters would do (eg two way trips), just waiting for clients with more money than sense, or those caught in a pickle, to walk through their doors and be exploited.

uShip almost halved the price for me.

If you're doing it yourself ... don't trust the satnav and work out a route without any low bridges!